The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-12
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

A RUTLAND boy has been badly lacerated
by a barbed wire fence.
A Coon TEMPLARs' lodge has just been
organized at Craftsbury.
DIpHTHERIA prevails to some extent in
Rutland from local causes.
A NUMBER of Newport people are prepar-
ing to colonze in California
DANIEL S. WINTER has been appointed
postmaster at Lyndon Center.
JAMES GREGORY of West Ferrisburgh
committed suicide Thursday by shooting.
S. S. BRowNs barn and shed in North
Pawlet were struck by lightning and burned.
f. w. SMITHS marble mill at Belden's
Falls was entirely destroyed by fire Monday.
JAMES GREGORY of West Ferrisburgh,
made Respondent by financial troubles, sui
cided by shooting.
THE Bates House at Rutland has just
passed into the control of its new proprie-
tors, A. H. futile & Son.
THE Daiy Critic Rutland's new one-cent
paper has appeared 1t claims to start with
a circulation of ZOO copies.
THE Cheshire Railroad Company proposes
to put new iron bridge across the Con-
necticut river Mt Bellows Falls.
NAPOLEON HART, brakeman on the Cen
trail Vermont, is said to be insane, and Will
doubtless be sent to Brattleboro.
A BURLINGTON shipper has recently pur-
chased some fifty tons of maple sugar at
points between st. Adams and Bethel.
MOSES GIRoUx, aged twenty-five and mar
ried, was killed by the fall of derrick in
Graves quarry at Winoosd last week.
SIX barrels of cider were spilled by the
authorities at Barton the other day. and the
owner paid S15 in fine and costs besides.
Mrs. THOMAS MARNocK of South Albany
was thrown from her team, breaking one
rib and otherwise seriously bruising her
THE steam lumber mills belonging to l..
ID. Hazen in Victory were burned Monday.
The loss is upwards of $4,000; insured for
$4,000.
THE state cattle commissioners decided
that n. l.. Narney'S cattle at Bristol were
not afflicted with pleuro-pneumonia, but
anthrax.
THE heirs of Bartholomew Rady, laborer,
killed in a sewer last month, will sue the
town of Rockingham for 100000 on the
ground of negligence.
L. d. HAzEN has recovered 1867 in Essex
county court of the Boston & Lowell rail
road for setting fire to pile of his lumber
in Victory in June, 1886.
MRS. FARMAN, aged eighty years, of West
field was burned to death last week Tues
day night. Her clothing took fire from
candle she was carrying.
THE selectmen of Waterville have sold
the hearse-house to Nathaniel Tillotson,
with right to occupy the same in the old
graveyard for shoe-shop.
THE iron bridge for the Burlington &
Lamoile railroad, to be erected over the
stream between Cambridge Junction and
Jacksonville, is completed
THE annual meeting of the Vermont State
Agricultural Society will be held at the Van
Ness House, Burlington, on Wednesday,
October 10Th, at ten o'clock A. NJ
ABOUT half of the $4,000 capital for a
shirt mandatory to be located at st. Johns
bury was subscribed last week, probably
assuring the success of the scheme
DANIEL BADGER of West Hartford dropped
his lantern in the barn last week, and his
barn, dweling-house, shed and corn-barn
were burned. The furniture was saved.
FIVE empty pocket-books were found on
the state fairgrounds after the recent fair,
where they had evidently been thrown
after having been rited of their contents.
The reunion of the First Vermont Cavalry
will be held at Bratteboro October 18th.
Business meeting at the town hall at four
P. NJ; banquet at the Brooks House at
seven p. NJ.
The citizens of Springfield are endeavor-
ing to raise $4,000 the stock required by a
large firm to have it decide to locate there
large boot and shoe mandatory, the pay
roll to be 500 per week
GEORGE S. SHAW of ST. Johnsbury COM
mitted suicide last week by shooting. He
had been in the insurance business several
years, leaves a wife (who is blind and two
children and was sixty-seven years old.
The proprietor of every hotel in Bellows
Falls has decided to close his house Novem-
Der 1st, because of the rigid enforcement of
the prohibitory law. The proprietors claim
they cannot make any money during the
winter without the income from the bar.
OCTOBER 9TH young man, aged twenty
tive named Fred L. Huntington, of Chateau.
gay, n. Y, and late of Grand Isle, VT, was
struck by the western mail train few miles
east of that place and instantly killed. He
was deaf and did not hear the train.
GENERAL PoMERoy of Highgate went tc
his barn with lighted lantern Thursday
evening and the lantern exploded. The hay
took fire, but help was soon at hand and the
flames We're eXtnguished The generals
hands are so badly burned that he cannot
use them at present.
THE committee on designs of the Gettys
burg monument commission met in Rut
land last week. 1t was decided to recon-
mend to the commission for the general OF
state monument Cornthian column, very
much like the Nelson monument in Trafal
gar square, London, only, of course, MOI
half so large. No definite plan was per
fected for the four smaller structures.
The seventy annual meeting of the
Vermont Bible Society will be held a
directors at two p. NJ. The business meet
ing of the society, to hear reports and cleo
officers, will be held at three p. NJ. The an
niversary exercises will be held at half-pas
seven p. NJ, when an address will be de
livered by Rev. Homer Eaton. ID D., of Bur
lington.
AMONG the subscriptions not previousl!
announced to the Gettysburg monumen
fund are 800 by A. f. Rankin, Esq, of ST
Johnsbury, S25 by II. Mann Jr., of viii
mington, 800 by Senator Morrill,, $50 b.
n. f. Cabot of Brattleboro, $50 each b.
two gentlemen who requested that thei
names should not be mentioned and $40
by Ex-Governor Horace Fairbanks Abou
5000 more are needed.
BY recent decision of the United State
court at Rutland, in the case of Receive
Writers of the First National Bank of 81
Adams against Albert Sowles and his as
signees, the receiver scores a victory for tn
bank and gets hold on $4,000 in real estat
and $4,000 in personal property for tn
benefit of the banks creditors. The dc
PENDANTS threaten to appeal the case to tn
United States supreme court, but the IT
ceiver looks for no different decision there
THE second annual reunion of the Sever
teenth Vermont Regiment was held in Bul
lington October 9th. The following off
GERS were elected: President, j, Ii. Lucia
vice-presidents, Frank Kentield, A. G. II
man, f. G. Scott, Dennis f.. May, Edwar
Baker; secretary and treasurer, e. l.. Wei
of Lyndonvile. At the public exercise
Colonel l.. f, Knapp presided, An addres
was delivered by General Griffith, speecht